Originally posted by docree
Try recording your music to a lower bitrate, rather than compressing. This is the reason most people claim that compressing video is bad. They use compression tools to compress a bad video file and the compression tools don't do the process correctly.
Doc'Ree
I suppose that compression was the wrong word to use,,yes, all mp3,s are compressed wav, what I was getting at was the fact that no matter what sound source you use apart from midi, it is going to eat up a huge chunk of swf space that could be better used as image quality or movement, that echoed opera piece on the page sounds sumptious when played at 44000 128 bit but now it's down to 22000 and 64 bit mono (to make an acceptable file size) it sounds like Monty Python with glandular fever. I suppose I'm a bit spoiled in that respect being an ex musician and having a very good quality recording set up. As for streaming, yes, it can be done for the computer you are working on, but the sync falls apart whenever you play the swf on another machine so as a background muzak then it's fine but as an integral part of the movie it's back to tinny sounds and huge files.

Bob,,I'm surprised that midi is incompatible with flash as it is a pure data instruction source and much less complex that raw sound data (hence the file sizes).Not being a whizz like yourself when it comes to programing and machine codes, perhaps I'm talking out of my hat, but I should have thought that there must be some way to integrate it as all it is actually doing is talking to the sound card, no codecs involved, just a constant stream of pure data, in fact it's about as close as you can get to an action script as it basically carries out the same function albeit with sound instead of vision.
Cheers